Scope and Contents From the Collection: Correspondence, sermons, essays and accounts of Robert Nelson, Protestant Episcopal missionary to Shanghai, China. The collection Includes two account books, a lettercopy book, and articles written by Nelson as well as two manuscript Chinese-English dictionaries compiled by Nelson. Some items, such as a "Count of Missionaries and Staff in China, 1807-1874" illuminate the history of missionaries in China. There is one letter written to Nelson in which the writer has used Wade-Giles...

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William H. Kinckle[?], at Staunton, [Virginia] to [Robert] Nelson, September 3, 1846.

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William Henry Brooks, at Plymouth, Mass. Printed form letter to the clergy of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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James Johnston, at Shanghai, to [Robert] Nelson.

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J. K. Wight, at New Hamburgh, N.Y., to Robert Nelson.

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Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, at New York, to Robert Nelson.

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George F. Seward, at Hong Kong, to O. B. Bradford, U.S. Vice Consul General, at Shanghai. [Copy].

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E. H. Thomson, at West Gate, Shanghai, to [Robert] Nelson.

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Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, at New York, to Robert Nelson, at Shanghai, China.

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Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, at New York, to Robert Nelson, and E. H. Thomson, at [Shanghai, China].

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J. K. Wight, at New Hamburgh, N.Y., to R[obert] Nelson.

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Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, at New York, to the Standing Committee of the Missionary Jurisdiction of Shanghai.